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APPENDIX B
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART
Section I. INTRODUCTION
B-1. General.
a. This section provides a general explanation of all maintenance and repair functions authorized at various mainte-
nance categories.
b. The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) in section II designates overall authority and responsibility for the per-
formance of maintenance functions on the identified end item or component. The application of the maintenance functions
to the end item or component will be consistent with the capacities and capabilities of the designated maintenance
categories.
c. Section III lists the tools and test equipment (both special tools and common tool sets) required for each mainte-
nance function as referenced from section II.
d. Section IV contains supplemental instructions and explanatory notes for a particular maintenance function.
B-2. Maintenance functions. Maintenance functions will be limited to and defined as follows:
a. Inspect. To determine the serviceability of an item by comparing its physical, mechanical, and/or electrical charac-
teristics with established standards through examination (e g., by sight, sound, or feel).
b. Test. To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical characteristics of an
item and comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards.
c. Service. Operations required periodically to keep an item in proper operating condition, i.e., to clean (includes de-
contaminate, when required), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids, or gases.
d. Adjust. To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper or exact position, or by setting
the operating characteristics to specified parameters.
e. Align. To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired performance.
f. Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments or test, measuring, and
diagnostic equipments used in precision measurement. Consists of comparisons of two instruments, one of which is a certified
standard of known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discrepancy in the accuracy of the instrument being compared.
g. Remove/Install. To remove and install the same item when required to perform service or other maintenance
functions. Install may be the act of emplacing, seating, or fixing into position a spare, repair part, or module (component or
assembly) in a manner to allow the proper functioning of an equipment or system.
h. Replace. To remove an unserviceable item and install a serviceable counterpart in its place. "Replace" is authorized
by the MAC and is shown as the 3d position code of the SMR code.
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Repair. The application of maintenance services1, including fault location/troubleshooting , removal/installation,
i.
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Services - inspect, test, service, adjust, align, calibrate, and/or replace.
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Fault locate/troubleshoot - The process of investigating and detecting the cause of equipment malfunctioning; the act
of isolating a fault within a system or unit under test (UUT).
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